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Hidden down a tiny lane in Bali, this joglo home blends Danish simplicity with Indonesian craftsmanship in a way that feels calm, practical, and deeply connected to nature. Created by Stinne and Herman, the house was built from 70% reclaimed teak and ulin wood, with a raised structure on pillars to improve airflow and help protect against damp and flooding in the rainy season.

Inside, the design stays minimal and uncluttered, with built-in storage, simple furniture, and spaces that invite reading, relaxing, and family life. The kitchen sits at the heart of the home, opening to rice fields, the pool, and a 10-meter-high ceiling, while a Terra Water filter helps reduce plastic bottle waste. Outside, herb gardens, outdoor dining areas, roof gutters, and elegant water chains add beauty as well as function.

The property also includes a separate guest house for Stinne’s mother, inspired by Japanese design with a simple, functional layout. It’s a thoughtful Bali home tour that brings together Scandinavian minimalism, traditional joglo architecture, sustainable living, and everyday comfort.

Created for viewers searching for Bali home tours, joglo house design, Scandinavian interior design, Indonesian wooden architecture, sustainable home ideas, and minimalist lifestyle inspiration. It also suits fans of architecture walkthroughs, tropical house tours, and calm design content with practical, real-world details.
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00:02Hi, Bali Interiors. My name is Timon.
00:04I'm Herman. Come and take a peek at our paradise.
00:20We chose Wooden House, so it breathes better, it connects better with nature.
00:25It's 70% reclaimed wood. It's very low maintenance because it's all reclaimed.
00:31So teak wood and wooden wood, which is the florist, has these natural oils in it.
00:38So we don't really need to do anything other than do a spray once a year, a termite spray,
00:44to make sure no one actually heats the house.
00:46But otherwise, you don't need to maintain it the same way as you have to with a concrete house right
00:51now.
00:55One of the main things we also wanted to do were lift the house.
01:00Because, again, we are all building on rice fields.
01:05So lifting the house, so the house is on pillars.
01:08So just to get the airflow under the house also has made a really big difference.
01:13So when we are in rainy season, we can avoid all the floods and the dams through the ground and
01:24up in the house.
01:25So that's also made a really big difference instead of just doing a concrete foundation.
01:35A few different areas in the house already where you can sit and eat.
01:38And this is the main dining area.
01:43We designed the table to be very minimalistic and simple, but still sturdy and have room for enough people.
01:50And then we made these chairs that are slightly rounded to make like a contrast to the very square house.
02:02We've used Terra Water Filter for four years actually and it was the first things we got when we moved
02:06here.
02:07Mainly because we didn't want to contribute to the whole plastic water bottle situation that's already a thing.
02:13But also because you can actually just use the tap water and put in here and it filters right through.
02:18And then you constantly have a water flow as you would in Denmark.
02:22Because in Denmark you would just drink out of the tap.
02:25Yes. So we needed something that would be as close as that as possible.
02:29While also having an aesthetic version of it, right?
02:33So we didn't want the classic plastic bottle or machine standing in the middle of the kitchen.
02:38Yeah.
02:43We made very small bedrooms, but we still wanted to be a place where you wanted to be during the
02:48day.
02:49We read books in here. We relax in here. This is basically the room we go for a quiet time.
02:56In the two bedrooms we have in the house, we decided to go with the Kelsey board and not wooden
03:03walls.
03:04Just to create a different environment and keep it more calm.
03:10So it's more like relaxing when you go to sleep.
03:14And then we could like paint it in the color we wanted to.
03:23This is Marley's room, our six year old son.
03:27It was really important for us to when we built our house that he finally could get his own room.
03:34We wanted to be like when he gets older, if he wanted to do changes that we didn't have to
03:40buy new furniture.
03:41So finding furniture that could last a long time was also a thing for us.
03:50We got this from the Danish company, Möbe, who does shelving systems and you can make them exactly as you
03:58want to.
03:59And so I designed this piece to fit in here because when you remove all the toys and all the
04:04colorful books,
04:05it could easily transition into a teenage room or even an adult room, right?
04:11So it's very important for us that it would last for a long, long time.
04:16And also that we can change up the shelving so we can put it up and down, remove some, add
04:21some if we want that in the future.
04:29So for the bathroom, we were trying to create the feeling of showering outside.
04:38So we decided to make a big window with plants on the outside.
04:44This is the only room in the house where it's actually concrete floors.
04:51And we actually use the same tiles here as we did out at the pool.
04:56So it has like this red line with the only tiles we have in the house is the pool tiles
05:04and the tiles in the bathroom.
05:11So we have this backyard behind the house where we've always wanted to grow our own herbs and tomatoes and
05:24things.
05:24So we decided to buy two rice beds and do our own herbs.
05:31So when we cook, we can just go out here and just pick what we need.
05:39So when we built the house, it was really important for us to get gutters, especially with the pool so
05:46the rainwater didn't go down in the pool.
05:49Water chain was like the deal breaker for us when we saw it.
05:54Like it just fitted in with the house and everything.
05:57And it just looks beautiful when it rains, you can sit on the on the deck and just look at
06:03this.
06:03It's it's amazing.
06:13We built this mainly for Stine's mom is moving here in a while.
06:20So for her to have her own space with her own kitchen, a little living room, bathroom and bedroom, of
06:28course.
06:29It's really we're trying to like be really inspired of the Japanese way of designing.
06:37So we darkened the floors and yeah, just made it really, really simple and really functional.
06:46Again, the red line keeping theme with with the main house, the Diablo.
06:56Yeah, so I actually have two favorite spots, but my main spot is the kitchen island.
07:00So we build this entire house around having a huge kitchen area, which which looks directly into the rice fields
07:08and the pools.
07:09We can have kids playing in the pool.
07:10We can cook dinner and we can watch the sunset going down right over here.
07:14At the same time, it has beautiful air flow because it's a 10 meters high ceiling.
07:20And you just stand in the middle of the house at the heart of the house, which just it feels
07:25very magical somehow.
07:29Yeah, yeah.
07:30It's just the center of the house.
07:32And that's where everything is going on.
07:36You know, our six year old son sits here, reads a book while we're cooking.
07:41When we have guests over, we love to entertain.
07:43It's just a big center of the house that we just love to be around.
07:49Like we can have the kids being in the pool while we are sitting here cooking, talking, enjoying.
07:55And yeah, it's just the heart of the house and just love that space.
08:04And the Danish way is very minimalistic, right?
08:06So it's a matter of mixing the Indonesian culture with Danish simplicity, minimalism.
08:15Yeah.
08:15The respect of the classic Indonesian house with the Danish minimalistic, more square designs.
08:27And we just thought that it fitted really good together too.
08:31Because as you can see, the house has also a lot of square lines.
08:35So the mix was pretty obvious for us to do.
09:02Thank you, Bali and Sirius, for taking a peek into a paradise.
09:05Bye.
09:06Bye.
09:10Bye.
09:11Bye.

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